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Yesterday's speech was part of an Amercan visit which included meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Congolese President Josheph Kabila...
Although all of the ballets in "Boogie, Brass, and Blue" are fine performances in and of themselves, it is difficult to say what exactly ties them all together. Self-dubbed "A Celebration of All-American Dance," the show is not decidedly un-Amercan, but it can hardly be called patriotic. Perhaps under a different title and theme, the performance could flow much better and more appropriately. But for now, perhaps audiences should ignore the false advertising, and simply attend "Boogie, Brass and Blue" not to see one enthusiastic show, but rather three excellent-though entirely unrelated-forms of ballet...
...Afro-Am class the subject matter is very controversial," says Kaiama L. Glover '94, an Afro-Amercan Studies and History and Literature concentrator. "People insert a lot of social issues that they wouldn't if evaluating texts in other classes. It adds to the intensity...
...years ago, America should have gotten the message. Perhaps the idea of bernoose-clad desert dwellers putting a hitch in the Amercan Way of Life was too much for people to absorb. Maybe they believed that the energy crisis was a fiction, created by the greedy oil companies. Whatever people thought then, the country now finds itself stuck with the reality of soaring energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies and no coherent approach to bailing the situation...
...intensifying. White House mail was running 2 to 1 against Lance. Various bankers challenged his claim that some $450,000 in overdrafts amassed by him and his relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black...